High Personal Productivity Will Bring You Happiness

If you just reflect for a moment on when you have been happiest at work you will probably recall a time when you were busy but also very productive. When we achieve things we feel better about ourselves and this flows through to other areas of productivity. There are a series of steps that you can take to increase your personal productivity and when this occurs you will feel much more relaxed and much happier.

You set long-range goals in both your personal and professional life. Then you work backwards and set shorter range objectives that are tied to your goals. Each objective has a specific target with a deadline and taken one at time they will lead you towards your goal. To do this you have to understand priorities so that you can put them into a logical order. You set goals and objectives, then you rank them in priority order and make a personal productivity plan based on them. Your personal productivity plan fits within your ideal day where you have blocked off certain times to fulfill key tasks.

Your ideal day is a purely personal productivity plan. You know from your own experience your own energy cycles. You know when you are most productive and you know when you’re least productive. If you take this into account when you are planning your day, you will do your high priority tasks during your time of peak productivity and do your low priority tasks when your productivity levels drop. This is a logical way to ensure that you have the energy resources to deal with what you’re doing at the time.

To achieve high levels of personal productivity, you need to start off with your long-range goals and objectives. Once you’ve done that, you will now be in a position to relate the day’s activities to those goals. Your priorities will be sorted out relatively simply. The more an activity contributes to your goal, a higher priority it receives. You can schedule your tasks according to priorities and also to your own energy cycle.

By writing all this down, you can use the plan to guide you through the crises, the interruptions and the unforeseen circumstances that occur every day in a dynamic workplace. Being able to see the plan is of the utmost importance because you can actually show other people and once they see what you have written down, they are aware of where your priorities lie. Without question, if you want to raise your personal productivity, make more effective use of your time and talent, become happier and more fulfilled, then you should make a daily plan in writing and stick to it.